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The same over here, more of less ...
All social life postponed (I don't mind ... )
Luckily none is "hamstering"() food like a hamster ,
but there were some exceptions, and even here and there
some quarrels in the stores (quite stupid behavior of course,
this is what corona needs to spread more ...). I think the mortality
rate is 7% in known cases as of today, but not everyone over here
seems to be aware of that ...
Cheers, and keep the "solitary confinment" up

yeah ... I could hardly resist to go on Friday ... And, on a more serious note, I think that the lockdown in Belgium was 2 days too late as now we have a surge to nearly 1000 cases ... Our offices are closed until 3rd of April and we are requested to work from home ...
Cheers, and stay safe ...

One of the forums showed a new message had been posted, but it was not on page 1. So I did a search and found a message relating to an answer that was posted 15 years ago. But, it was just saying thanks for the answer which is still valid 15 years later. So I can only conclude that the person who posted did a Google search for a particular problem, rather than opening a QA. If that is true then my faith in humanity has been notched up a tad.

My university is undergoing quarantine. All the classes have been cancelled, midterms postponed and all. We can't avail any facilities like gym or squash courts (now where am I supposed to take out my frustration ).

Worst is, we are being kicked out of hostels and forced to go home. Like why can't we do this quarantine thing at hostels and labs. I still have tons of work to finish. How am I supposed to do research at home?

I had squash tournament going on and my team qualified for nationals which is a big thing at least for me but here we are with Corona......EVERYTHING cancelled.

I was literally completely unbothered by the virus until now since I'm not afraid of dying or what so ever but this shut-down is making me go nuts now. I think this shut down is much worse than virus itself. Bankruptcy rate will go much higher than death rate. Whatever

This isn't about young healthy people getting sick, this is about preventing the spread of a pandemic and limiting it's growth rate to that which medical facilities can cope with. Because it kills 3.5% of all infected persons, and if everyone on the planet gets infected that's around 250,000,000 people who die as a result. The slower it spreads, the better medical facilities can handle it, and the lower the death rate.

And large (or even medium sized) groups of young people are a damn fine way to spread this around, particularly since it seems you can be infectious without showing symptoms. So stop whining about what are in the broad scheme of things minor hiccoughs, and think about your duties to your fellow human beings...

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I think you will have a load of bored youth with nothing to do, that will start meeting up with each other anyway after a week or two, and still get sick. But now they live with their parents instead.
<edit>after reading Amarnaths response below I realize I'm a bit optimistic here</edit>

I believe this is less likely if they're home, because if they're still living around university, it's more tempting/easy to do so since most of your friends are living much more nearby.

Even if you assume that everyone is responsible, student housing with shared accomodities seems like a good place to catch the virus. Sure, you're not with your parents, but you cannot guarantee complete separation of the younger and older generation -- some students could still go to their parents, and students also still have to go to stores to get food. It's unrealistic that different generations don't meet there.

My university has moved all education activities to online platform, and asked students to go home if they could. So I'm home now and this is surely the place I'd rather be, despite being with my parents. It just feels safer for everyone.

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Still the numbers are different. If you meet your friends, you are moving within a moderated number of contact people. In the classes or in the cantine (college restaurant or whatever the name is) that numbers are much, much higher.

When I was studying, I had some lessons where we were between 250 and 300 people in the room. And our cantine had sit places for 650 people (getting used 3 or 4 times in a row at rush hours).

So yes... I see the point with "it is impossible to avoid spread", the point is not to avoid it, the point is to slow it down.

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